Hybrid Tea Rose

The sun is shining, the garden is beginning to dry up after being ankle deep in mud - and I am thinking of roses! In fact, I planted a new one yesterday after being forced to wait for the ground to dry a bit. The first time I came across Hybrid Tea roses was when my parents decided to buy a dozen to line our front garden - more years ago than I care to mention! Before that - roses were roses - we had several ramblers in the garden and these were the ones with which I was familiar. Having been involved with the choosing of the new roses I was keen to see how they developed and I have loved them ... more

Hybrid Tea roses are to most people the best kind of rose . They are usually fragrant , always eye catching and the flowers are of a good size. Hybrid Tea roses do not flower so profusely as floribunda's but they make up for it in my opinion with better quality blooms. It is like the old saying goes - it is better to have quality rather than quantity . Well it is in this case anyway ! The flower is the classic rose shape - many petals with a distinct central cone. The blooms are almost always borne singly or with several side shoots instead of the clusters of the more prolific but inferior ... more